Yildirim said that Turkey shares their grief and happiness with their Greek neighbors, adding, “Sharing our grief with our neighbors is a necessity. We give our kind regards to the [Greek] government on this occasion.”
“We hope that our country will never be tested again by such disasters,” he added.
A Turkish citizen -- 39-year-old Sinan Kurtoglu from the Izmir province -- was among two people killed when the quake hit the Greek island of Kos, just off the coast of Turkey, in the early hours of Friday.
A second fatality of the 6.6-magnitude shock was a Swedish man, according to Greek officials.
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